Her hands suddenly released Raize's cheeks, then directly climbed onto Raize's broad back, secretly exerting force.
Weng—!
In a single instant, tens of millions of sealing spells—approaching forbidden-spell level—unfolded at once, ruthlessly suppressing that surging power back down for the time being.
At her peak, when she sealed the Beast 666, she could deploy hundreds of millions of layers in an instant.
Now that her strength was not at its peak, a complete seal was impossible, but a temporary seal was still well within her capabilities.
The bright, silvery moonlight of the deep night spilled down, casting a luminous silver-gray sheen through the gaps in the curtains and illuminating the two of them.
With the troublesome interference gone, Sei seemed to adopt a "to hell with it" attitude and became even more excessive. Her other fair, tender little hand slid down along Raize's lower abdomen...
Curled up like an infant, Laffey lay in the room in a deep sleep. Her expression looked slightly uncomfortable, her fair brows slowly knitting together.
The chaotic fluctuations in Raize's mind were also sensed by the shipgirl who shared a contractual connection with him.
In her own room, Eu suddenly opened her beautiful cerulean eyes.
Wearing a thin, pure-white nightgown dress, the girl slowly sat up in bed. Her expression was somewhat confused, her delicate brows tightly furrowed. She raised a hand to her chest, gently biting her lip as she looked toward Raize's room.
It felt like she had sensed fluctuations in her own power—and also… a feeling of panic rising in her heart.
Eu did not like this feeling.
Right now, she had an urgent desire to see Raize. But it was already deep into the night, and barging into Raize's room might disturb him—and she was also shy, afraid that something she still could not accept might happen.
On the other side, within the port area of the Minecraft world, the shipgirls who were busy with their own tasks seemed to sense something as well. One after another, they all furrowed their fair, beautiful brows.
Crack!
Inside the office, where she was organizing and reviewing documents related to all operational matters of the naval base, Friedrich der Große also frowned, subconsciously snapping the fountain pen that Raize had personally given her.
Lowering her head to look at the pen broken cleanly into two pieces in her hand, a trace of heartache and panic flashed through Friedrich's eyes. But sensing that sudden fluctuation in the commander's mental state, she was now completely unable to focus.
Did something happen on the commander's side…? Why did it make her feel so restless?
"Friedrich, what's wrong?"
Also working in the office, Raize's shadow clone had just finished brewing two cups of coffee and walked over. Seeing Friedrich's expression and the suddenly broken pen, he placed the coffee beside the desk and asked with some confusion.
As he spoke, Raize also thoughtfully used his power to clean up the ink that had splashed near her hand.
"Child, thank you."
Looking at Raize in front of her, who was carefully helping her deal with the mess, Friedrich felt her heart settle a little.
But when she remembered that the person before her was only her child's clone and not the real body, her heart once again became uneasy.
"Child, do you know what your main body is doing right now?"
"That, I really don't know. Usually, when I disappear, I return to the main body with my memories and fatigue, but as long as I don't disappear, there's no way to contact the main body."
The original purpose of shadow clones was not combat, but intelligence gathering for shinobi.
Raize looked a little puzzled. Hadn't his main body already explained Laffey's situation in the mental link? Could it be that she was still bothered by that matter?
"I see…"
Friedrich's expression did not change, but she felt a sense of loss inside. For some reason, she urgently wanted to see Raize's true body. That subtle fluctuation she had sensed earlier through the mental network made her very uneasy.
"Child, can I take some time to leave this world? I want to go outside and have a look."
Following that ominous feeling, Friedrich wanted to leave this small world and go to Raize's home that Laffey had mentioned, to properly see how her child was living.
Raize heard this and did not hesitate at all. Raising an eyebrow, he looked at Friedrich and said, "Of course you can. Anyone who wants to go out can do so. Do you need me to disappear now and talk to the main body?"
"No, let's talk about it tomorrow. I still need to finish handling this work first."
Although she very much wanted to drop everything and go see her child, Friedrich was not the type to be careless. She was very conscientious about her duties.
No matter what, she needed to finish dealing with the port's affairs first and make sure everything was in order before leaving.
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When he woke up early in the morning, Sei was already gone from the room. Raize sat slumped in the computer chair, clothes disheveled, staring blankly at the ceiling with lifeless eyes. He looked as if he had just been… rented se—cough cough.
Even the game he was supposed to be playing was still paused. Raize had maintained this posture for quite some time, only snapping back to his senses shortly before Laffey was about to wake up.
With a glance, he saw six crumpled balls of tissue paper in the trash can beside the desk. Raize directly incinerated them—trash can included—with a single burst of flame, then quickly tidied up his clothes and walked out of the room.
Looking slightly dazed, Raize washed his face. After drying it, he stared at his reflection in the mirror and slowly raised a hand to touch his lips.
It felt as though that fragrant scent and smooth sensation still lingered between his lips, teeth, and tongue.
He raised his other hand and gently clenched it, as if he could still feel that softness.
His emotions had become as tangled as a twisted rope. Last night, not only had Sei kissed him, but aside from the final step, he and Sei had done everything they should have done.
Although Sei was a goddess, when it came to that sort of thing she was limited to theoretical knowledge. Apart from her initial initiative, she quickly became at a loss.
Even though she possessed the resilient will befitting a strong being,
when faced with something like this, she was genuinely unbearably shy. After the kiss, she was extremely clumsy about what came next. She wanted to make it a done deal, but unfortunately didn't have much fire to burn.
Only when Raize, whose mind had been in a daze, came back to his senses and took the initiative did she follow his movements and continue.
Last night, in front of Laffey, who was truly asleep, they did things that were far too excessive—and absolutely not suitable for children to see.
Raize seriously began to doubt his own life. He had never expected Sei to harbor those kinds of feelings toward him, especially when the time they had spent together wasn't even that long.
Even when Sei, in her childlike mode, was close to him in daily life, Raize had never thought too deeply about it.
But last night, Sei's initiative and emotional outburst—
made it impossible for him to suppress the trace of inappropriate thoughts he had always harbored toward her.